Pulmonary Disease in a Psychiatric Inpatient Population

Psykiatrien Syd

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease

Treatments: Procedure: Spirometry with reversibility test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01823627

SJ-322

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: Patients with mental health disorders have a reduced life expectancy, compared to the general population. The shorter life expectancy is caused by natural and unnatural death. In general, patients with a mental disorder tend to have a more unhealthy lifestyle, than the general population, characterized by e.g. lack of exercise and smoking.

Hypothesis

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is underdiagnosed in psychiatric inpatients There is a higher prevalence of COPD in psychiatric inpatients compared to the general population Screening of patients with one respiratory symptom and a smoking history, has the same sensitivity regarding to diagnosis of COPD, as screening all patients with a smoking history

Method:

80 psychiatric inpatients will undergo spirometry with reversibility test and COPD Assessment Test (CATest). Furthermore, patient history regarding respiratory symptoms and smoking will be taken into account.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inpatients in Psykiatrien Syd, Region Zealand, ward S1,S2,S3,S4,S5,S6
• Admission time over 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who is not able to perform spirometry due to their psychiatric condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 1 patient group

Spirometry with reversibility test

Other group

Description:

Spirometry with reversibility test

Treatment:

Procedure: Spirometry with reversibility test